Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why aren't you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there's not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it's fine.

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.